Flesh in the Age of ReasonPenguin UK, 2005/01/27 - 592 ページ 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week |
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... Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Allen Lane, 2000). Noting various themes omitted from that book, particularly 'the controversies which raged over mind and body, heaven and hell, the soul, the afterlife, and the je ne sais ...
... Britain today over the proposed introduction of compulsory identity cards illustrates the point: what has been truly difficult to achieve in modern times is not identity but anonymity. Traditional tellings of the ascent of man have thus ...
... Britain in the 'age of reason'. In the 'authorized version' endorsed by the Churches, a person was a familiar paradox: a miserable sinner, promised an eternal destiny beyond the grave. The young Dissenter Isaac Watts could thus, around ...
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SCIENCE RESCUES THE SPIRIT | |
JOHN LOCKE REWRITES THE SOUL | |
THE POLITE SELF IN THE POLITE BODY | |
NIGHTMARE SELVES 10 JOHNSON AND INCORPORATED MINDS 11 EDWARD GIBBON FAME AND MORTALITY | |